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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

7 CHARLES E. ON GLEY, OF YONKERS', ASSIGN OR TO HIMSELF AND THOMAS W. ROBERTSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ELECTRIC FIRE ALARM AND EXTINGUISHIN G APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,318, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed December 2'7, 1889- Serial No. 335,146. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES E. ONGLEY, a citizen of, the United States, residing at Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Fire Alarms and Extinguishing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an automatic fire-alarm apparatus of an effective character, the operation of which will indicate the point from which the alarm is sent, and also to provide a simple and efiective extinguishing apparatus which may be used in connection with such automatic alarm apparatus.

My invention is especially designed for the protection of buildings, such as factories and hotels, and to accomplish this I place different signal-boxes in various parts of the building, so that if a fire occurs 'at any place one of the boxes will be released and the number of the box will be signaled at the office of the building or elsewhere. In connection with this signaling system I prefer to provide the building with an extinguishing system consisting of water-pipes extending throughout the building and provided at many points with outlets, suitable valves being provided, the opening of which permits the water to leave the pipes at the outlets controlled by the valve. I arrange the valves to be operated each by an electromagnet, and at the office or other place where the signal-receiver is situated I connect the valvemagnets to suitable switches, so that as soon as a signal is received the switch controlling the valves nearest to the point from which the signal comes may be closed, so as to open such valve and allow the water to issue from the pipes. I prefer to have each valve provided with two magnets, one for opening and the other for closing the valve, each magnet being controlled by a separate switch.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a front view of a signal-box provided with myinvent-ion; Fig. 2, a front view of the box with the cover removed, and Fig. 3 a diagram of the system. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the controlling apparatus of the motor.

The transmitter shown is an ordinary in- 'dividual transmitter or district call-box consisting of a break-wheelAaud contact-spring B, the break-wheel being operated by a springmotor 0, which is placed under tension by turning the handle D, which is outside of p the box.

E is a link of fusible wire, such as is commonly employed for automatic fire-extinguishing apparatus, which is placed over the stem at at the end of the handle and over a post or stem 1), projecting from the front of the box, the ,handle being first turned to put the spring-motorunder tension. The fusible link holds it in this positionuntil it is released, which will occur when the temperature in the vicinity of the box reaches a point sufficient to melt the fusible metal, whereupon the break-wheel will turn under the contactspring, as usual, and transmit a signal giving the'number of the box. Instead of the fusible link, it is evident that other thermostatic under tension.

Referring now to Fig. 3, boxes F F, of the kind just described, are placed at suitable points throughout the building, these being as shown, all connected in series in a circuit from the battery G, in which circuit is also placed a signal-register H of any suitable character, and preferably, also, a magnet I. In addition to the circuit containing the alarm-box, another circuit extends from the battery to the switch-board K, at which are provided switchesor keys of suitable character, controlling the circuits of the valve-operating magnets c c and d d. L is a main water-pipe, and'M M are branch pipes, the branch pipes having outlets 6, these devices being as usual in automatic sprinkling systems. The branch pipe H has a valve at N, and the pipe M a valve at N. These valve are operated by hydraulic pressure, controlled by the magnets-mag nets ,0 and (1 operating to open their respective valves and magnets c and d to close them. The energization of magnet c or 0' opens one of the small valves '0 in a supple mental cylinder g. This allows the water,

- which normally stands in the inlet-pipe L and the space below valves 2; and v, to flow,

through the upper port it to the space above the piston 2', moving it down, the effect being to close valve 0 and open '0'. Water then flows through the outlet is to pipe Z or m, as

the case may be, to move the piston P (see Fig. 3) and open or close the valve in the branch pipe M. The circuit of each magnet is also provided with a push-button f for op,- erating the valves, when it is desired to do so, at a point other than the central office. A magnet I controls a local circuit containing a vibrating bell O in the oflice, and also, if desired, a similar bell P outside the building.

It will be seen that when any one of the boxes F is released, as above described, a numerical signal showing the number of the box will be registered at the oflice, and at the same time an alarm will be given by the bells O and 1?. The person in charge will then at the switchboard close the switch of the magnet for opening the valve nearest to the box from which the signal has been sent, and so cause the Water to flow from the pipe at that place. The flow of water may be stopped by closing the key of the valve-closing magnet. The operation of opening and closing the valves may also be performed by means of the push-buttons f, when desired.

lVhat I claim is- 1. The combination, with the water-pipes provided with outlets, valves in said pipes,

' an electro-magnet for opening and an electromagnet for closing each valve, circuits including said magnets and extending to the office or similar point, and switches for said circuits, also at the oliice, of automatic fire-alarm-signal transmiters distributed about the building and a signal-receiver connected therewith, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the Water-pipes provided with outlets, valves in said pipes, an electro-magnet for opening and an electromagnet for closing each valve, circuits including said magnets, and switches for said circuits, of individual spring-operated signaltransmitters distributed about the building and each provided with a thermostat for holding it under tension, and a signal-receiver connected with said transmitter, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of a Waterpipc, a branch pipe therefrom, a valve in the branch pipe, a Water-motor connected with the main pipe for opening and closing the valve, magnets for controlling admission of water to one side or the other of the motor as it is desired to open or close the valve, and independent circuits for the opening and closing magnets leading to the ofiice, and circuit-controllers ineacheircuit at said ofiice, substantially as described. i. 'lhecombination of a ater-pipe, a branch pipe therefrom, a valve in the branch pipe, a We ter-motor connected with the main pipe for Opening and closing the valve, magnets for controlling admission of vvater to one side or the other of the motor as it is desired to open or close the valve, independent circuits for the opening and closing magnets leading to the office, circuit-controllers in each circuit at the oiiice, and additional push buttons at other points of the same circuit, whereby the valves can be operated from several points, substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 23d day of December, 1889,

CHARLES E. .ONGLEY. lVitnesses:

D. II. DnIsco L, W. PELZER. 

